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About 50,000 people are expected to head to Canberra this Easter weekend for the annual National Folk Festival. Indigenous singer-songwriter Gina Williams and guitarist Guy Ghouse will be joining the hundreds of musicians, singers, dancers , poets, and artisans who perform over the five days ...

Troy Cassar-Daleys ninth studio album truly speaks of identity. Troy extends an open invitation to all with the song Take a Walk in My Country, and reveals everlasting inspiration from his grandfathers Akubra in This Old Hat. Pride in identity comes through in the album title and song of the same ...

It's 50 years since Charles Perkins, Jim Spiegelman and others set out on their 'freedom ride' around NSW. They found inequalities and segregation that many Australians would have only identified with the southern USA or South Africa. learned about all this by doing a school project, but it ...

Ursula Yovich has joined the Black Arm Band as they prepare to stage a regional tour of their production dirtsong. Sung in Aboriginal languages from Palawa Kani to Burrarra - Ursula's mother tongue - and inspired by the prose of the Miles Franklin Award winning author Alexis Wright, dirtsong is a ...

When musician Luke Peacock first came across Vic Simms' The Loner, he became obsessed with it. The album - dubbed Australias first black protest record - was recorded while Vic was serving time in Bathurst jail. Vic Simms gave his blessing to the project to reinterpret the seminal album of prison ...